

Otherppl with Brad Listi
Brad Listi
Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly books and culture podcast featuring in-depth conversations with today's leading authors. Literature, screenwriting, the creative process, pop culture, and more. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Follow the show on Bluesky and Instagram.
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Aug 10, 2025 • 1h 11min
983. Jane Borden
Jane Borden is the author of Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America, available from Atria.
Jane's work as a culture journalist has been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
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Aug 7, 2025 • 1h 39min
Mira is Hallucinating Bugs
Volume 54 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad wanders the hills, contemplating mountain lions and death...Mira's ant infestation...Mira in retrograde...Sydney Sweeney's iron domes...Pam and Liam 4ever...Rod Stewart's A.I. necrophilia...Denise Richards' ex euthanizes her dog??...and more...
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
Merch
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Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 5, 2025 • 1h 9min
982. Shelby Hinte
Shelby Hinte is the author of the debut novel Howling Women, available from Leftover Books.
Hinte is the Senior Editor of Write or Die Magazine and teaches writing classes at the Writing Salon and WritingWorkshops.com. She has been a reader and intern for various independent presses and magazines including ZYZZYVA, Split/Lip Press, and No Contact. Her writing has been featured in BOMB Magazine, The Rumpus, ZYZZYVA, Hobart, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. Howling Women is her first novel. She lives in Northern California.
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
Merch
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Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 3, 2025 • 1h 2min
981. Claire Jia
Claire Jia is the author of the debut novel Wanting, available from Tin House. It was the official July pick of the Otherppl Book Club.
Jia is a writer from Illinois. Her work has appeared in The New York TimesModern Love column, The Rumpus, Reductress, and more. She writes for television and video games, including the 2024 Peabody Award-winning We Are OFK. She lives in Los Angeles with her friends.
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
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Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
The podcast is an affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 31, 2025 • 1h 31min
It's Hot Down Here, Brother
Volume 53 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad approaches 50...the Tesla Diner attacks a woman...the obsession with tall...the triumph of Billy Joel, short king and musical savant...Sydney Sweeney's eugenics commercial...the roasting of Hulk Hogan, an American embarrassment...the Justin Trudeau / Fidel Castro conspiracy theory...and more...
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
Merch
Twitter
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Bluesky
Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 29, 2025 • 1h 20min
980. Hannah Pittard
Hannah Pittard is the author of the novel If You Love It, Let It Kill You, available from Henry Holt & Co.
Pittard is the author of the novels Listen to Me and The Fates Will Find Their Way. She is a winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, a MacDowell fellow, and the Guy M. Davenport Professor in English at the University of Kentucky. She lives with her boyfriend and stepdaughter in Lexington. Much of her family lives nearby.
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
Merch
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Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
The podcast is an affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 27, 2025 • 1h 41min
979. Ken Baumann
Ken Baumann is the author of the novella The Christian: A Comedy.
Baumann is the author of seven novels and three works of nonfiction. After working as an actor in film and TV, running the publishing company Sator Press, studying canonical texts at St. John's College, and playing competitive Magic: The Gathering, he now lives and works as a writer and coach in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
Merch
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Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
The podcast is an affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 24, 2025 • 1h 40min
52 Weeks of Brad & Mira
Volume 52 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...a year of podcasting...Mira's longest run of continuous employment...Mira vs. diarrhea...the Tesla Diner opens in Hollywood...Mira does hot yoga to relieve PTSD...Brad watches the new Billy Joel documentary...the '70s smelled bad...Gwyneth talks about technically excellent tea-bagging...Ozzie RIP....Trump and Epstein's "wonderful secrets"...and more...
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
Merch
Twitter
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Bluesky
Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 22, 2025 • 1h 8min
978. Megan Abbott
Megan Abbott is the author of the novel El Dorado Drive, available from G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Abbott is the Edgar award-winning author of eleven crime novels, including You Will Know Me, Give Me Your Hand and the New York Times bestseller The Turnout, the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Paris Review and the Wall Street Journal. Dare Me, the series she adapted from her own novel, now streaming on Netflix. Her latest novel, Beware the Woman, is now in paperback.
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Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter.
Support the show on Patreon
Merch
Instagram
Bluesky
Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com
The podcast is an affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9 snips
Jul 20, 2025 • 58min
Exploring Hybrid Literary Forms
Matthew Clark Davison, author and founder of The Lab, teams up with Alice LaPlante, bestselling author and writing educator. They dive into the dynamic world of hybrid literary forms, encouraging writers to experiment boldly across genres. Their conversation is filled with practical exercises to break creative blocks and emphasizes the blend of personal storytelling with humor and pain. They also discuss the balance between creativity and strategy, promoting accessibility in writing while navigating the unique challenges of crafting compelling narratives.